As with Kung Fu Panda 2 earlier this week, Paramount has decided to reveal their Super Bowl TV spot for Rango a few days before the big game. It can be viewed over at iTunes. Rango blends into theaters this March.

An amusing new poster for Hop–this time with a Super Bowl theme–has just been posted online at the Internet Movie Poster Awards. Curiously enough, there are apparently no plans for Universal Pictures to advertise the film during Sunday’s big game. The live-action/animated comedy starring Russell Brand and James Marsden comes to theaters this Easter.

One would imagine that the world’s biggest collection of early animation would be housed in an archive or a museum. It’s actually owned by a 21 year college student José Stathes. He’s been collecting animation since the age of eleven and he hopes to use his collection to revive early cartoons. Read the entire story […]

DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon was the big animated winner at the 9th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards. It’s three wins (in all three categories it was nominated in) were for Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature, Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature, and Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature. Pixar’s Day […]

Disney has hired Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt to write their upcoming fairy tale spin-off Snow & the Seven, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will imagine Snow White as an English woman who travels to China to attend her father’s funeral, where she meets seven international warriors when she realizes that her […]

The Super Bowl TV spot for DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 has just been revealed over at Yahoo! Movies. The ad is one of several movie commercials that are set to air during the big game, including Thor, Captain America and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Kung Fu Panda 2 kicks its […]

The official theme song from Rango–composed by Los Lobos–can now be heard online thanks to the LA Times. The song is meant to be a parody of the ballads found in older westerns. Starring Johnny Depp, Rango comes to theaters everywhere this March.

DreamWorks has announced they will be bringing the 1970s Sid & Marty Krofft television series Lidsville to the big screen. “Sid and I have had a longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Katzenberg and we’re excited to bring Lidsville to DreamWorks Animation. It’s incredible to envision a high-quality 3D animated movie being made out of one of […]

While you might not realize it based on all the news focusing on one of the stars’ wardrobe choices, Blue Sky’s Rio had its Hollywood premiere this past weekend. Director Carlos Saldanha, and stars Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, and George Lopez talk about the film with Collider. The studio has announced a unique promotional tie-in […]

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland is available on Blu-ray today. Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Alice, talks with MovieWeb and The Trades. Cinema Blend will tell you how to save some money on the new disc. And, while not strictly related to the Disney version, check out this gallery of Alice book covers of the past […]

After being delayed for well over a year, the Hoodwinked sequel Hood Vs. Evil will finally come to theaters on April 29th, ComingSoon.net is reporting. The movie was apparently pushed back due to financial woes at The Weinstein Company, the sequel’s distributor. The original Hoodwinked was a surprise hit in 2006, earning over $50 million against […]

The first two minutes of Blue Sky’s upcoming animated comedy Rio have recently been posted online over at MSN Movies. Featuring the voices of Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg and George Lopez, Rio flies into theaters everywhere this April.

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…news that director Zack Snyder has just announced who will play the Man of Steel in his upcoming Superman movie reboot. Superhero Hype! is reporting that Henry Cavill will don the cape in the film that is set for a Christmas 2012 release. Cavill is […]

Jim Hill Media takes a close look at how the new film Rango was recorded and finds that it was quite similar to how the Walt Disney Company shot live-action sequences as reference points for animators. Kathryn Beaumont, Disney Legend and voice of Wendy (Peter Pan) and Alice (Alice in Wonderland) provides an interview for […]

In news that should surprise nobody, Disney’s upcoming Winnie the Pooh has been given a G rating by the MPAA, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The 51st animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures is set to come to theaters everywhere this summer.

Leonardo DiCaprio will no longer be lending his voice to DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians, Variety is reporting. The actor had previously been announced to voice the lead character of Jack Forst, a role which Star Trek leading man Chris Pine will now be taking over. The story finds Frost as a member of an […]

The Oscar nominations for the 83rd annual Academy Awards have been announced, with Toy Story 3 becoming only the third animated feature to land a nod for Best Picture. Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei and Oprah Winfrey will be among the presenters at the ceremony, to be hosted by new Catwoman Anne […]

Disney has officially announced Tangled for home video release on March 29 2011, in Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD editions. Full details can be read here:

Acclaimed actor Liam Neeson is set to return to the Star Wars universe to voice Qui-Gon Jinn in two special episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Entertainment Weekly is reporting. It will be the first time that fans have been able to see the character since The Phantom Menace in 1999. “Growing up, my heroes […]

An announcement for an intriguing event hosted by the Los Angeles Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH along with The Visual Effects Society Archive Committee, named Tron – Now and Then, can be read in the More link at the end of this story. Of historical significance is the fact that the LA Chapter’s first event […]

With Disney’s Tangled about to open in the UK, The Guardian takes a look at how animated fairytale features have evolved over the years, citing how the new take on Rapunzel manages to combine the traditions of old with a contemporary feel and avoids falling into the cliches of similar films from other studios.

Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 took home a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Sunday night at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, beating out other nominees Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist, and Tangled. Full list of nominees and winners can be found here.

A new poster for DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 has just been revealed at ComingSoon.net. The site also has a new image from the film. Starring Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Gary Oldman, Kung Fu Panda 2 opens everywhere next summer.

DreamWorks Animation has announced that their newest animated film will be called The Monkeys of Bollywood based off the epic Indian poem Ramayana. It will be a diverse collaboration between many big names in the entertainment industry: Stephen Schwartz the famous Broadway lyricist and scorer for The Prince of Egypt, Gurinder Chadha the director of […]

Deadline is reporting that Disney is in the early stages of producing a theatrical movie based on their popular cartoon show Phineas & Ferb. Supposedly, the project might end up being a mix of live action and animation, which would be interesting given the extremely cartoony nature of the show. The series focuses on two […]